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This first full career survey of Los Angeles artist Lun*na Menoh will feature multiple works from all her art-making practices––painting, sculpture, performance art, and video. Anchoring the exhibition are a dozen of Menoh’s subversive one-of-a-kind sculptural garments. In the Surrealist tradition, these wearable artworks are at turns witty, diabolical, and unabashedly beautiful. “The Magical Story Teller Dress,” for instance, is a mechanized gown with a full skirt that incorporates several picture frames; as the wearer weaves her tale, paintings in the picture frames shift to illustrate the story. “Men’s Wardrobe” is a clothing rack of men’s wear that’s been stripped down to nothing but the seams, and “Which Room Do You Want to Get Into?” is a bright yellow jumper inset with fantasy boxes evocative of work by Joseph Cornell. The show will also include several pieces from Menoh’s “Dirty Shirt Collar,” project, which includes a line of clothing fashioned entirely from dirty shirt collars, and a series of painted portraits of her favorite dirty collars. The founder and sole member of the band Jean Paul Yamamoto, Menoh recently premiered her work of musical theater, “A Tribute to Yoko Ono,” at LACE.